You’re right that we don’t have a set rule of cash received per point of Karma. With the way things tend to work, 2,500 nuyen per point of Karma is not a bad guideline.

After reading the game books, it occurred to me that a 400 BP character team would be over matched by many of the encounters in the campaign. As a result, I have been toying with the idea of allowing a group of veteran players to build veteran characters. How much karma and cash (above and beyond 400 BP), if any would you recommend a character have to start the Artifacts campaign? In addition, is there a basic guide line that GMs can use to choose an appropriate professional/threat level for grunts when running published campaigns or building ones own campaign. Example, it is unlikely a team of novice characters will walk away from a lethal confrontation with either a red samurai or Tir Ghost team. At what level of character karma and cash should one start to introduce these types of grunts to a campaign with a realistic expectation that characters will be able to walk away from these encounters the same way a 400 BP character would walk away from an encounter with a Prof 2 or 3 encounter.

Also it has been difficult for me to gauge how much cash runners should receive per point of karma. I know there is no set rule to this, but I was hoping for a guild line.

Thank you for Shadowurn. It has provided my friends and I with a never ending joy. Keep up the good work.